The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights provides rapid response grants that enable strategic interventions, and participates in collaborative advocacy and research. The Fund, which has a consolidated branch for Africa (UAF Africa), has announced a broader and decentralized action plan for Latin America.

As of 17 November 2009, Urgent Action Fund-Latin America (UAF-Latin America) has taken over responsibility for reviewing all proposals for rapid response grants from Latin America. UAF-Latin America, based in Bogotá, Colombia, has been operating as the third independent Urgent Action Fund since August 2009. Urgent Action Fund, UAF-Africa, and UAF-Latin America will continue to collaborate in their shared mission to promote the human rights of women and girls around the world. UAF-Latin America will be responsible for all requests from Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.